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Re: Nomenclature
>_Stokesosaurus_ - firming as a tyrannosauroid with the referral of an
>extraordinarily derived (for a Late Jurassic theropod) and
>somewhat tyrannosaurid-like braincase to this genus. The article
>appeared in JVP sometime earlier this year.
Extraordinarily derived? Maybe not
so. With a possible bird in Late Triassic (Protoavis texensis) and this new
therizinosaur from Chinese Lower Jurassic sediments, carnosaurians and
"megalosaurs" may be relics, Stokesosaurus being a totally
unsurprising basal tyrannosaurid.
Best
regards.
Félix Landry